Autonomy is regarded as a crucial notion in multi-agent systems and several researchers have tried to identify what are the agent's parts that give it an autonomous character....
Efficient collaboration and task management is challenging in distributed, dynamically-formed organizations such as ad hoc disaster response teams. Ineffective collaboration may r...
In collaborative e-commerce environments, interoperation is a prerequisite for data warehouses that are physically scattered along the value chain. Adopting system and information...
Although many formalisms have been proposed for reasoning about intelligent agents, few of these have been semantically grounded in a concrete computational model. This paper prese...
The modeling of noncooperative dialogs, as opposed to dialogs in which the goals of the participants coincide, presents novel challenges to a pragmatically oriented dialog system. ...
Anthony Jameson, B. Kipper, Alassane Ndiaye, Ralph...